HOW CANE BASKETS ARE MADE
1934 Catawba Texts by Frank G. Speck
Wasa’p’ ta”ehę” mora’ mǫtut iswątαk ina’hę” wąsa’ ką’ehę” tcayi’tcα’. Dugiɂna’hę” wąsa’ kiɂsę”ihę”. Wasa’p’ katcəhę” tcoyi’ tcəhę”. Yę’pα hį hatα’ nuyą’wahę” wasa’p’ ta”e mǫtu”. Yapkaį’e kida’ hαtcα” isto’hye’ wi’yata”ehę” ǫwətcα” nuwi’yəhę”. Kate’wohę”. Watka”se’he’e” ų”tcα hisu” hį katcəhę”. Waru’pis ǫwətcα” hawo’t katcəhę”. Wayu’k te” owotcəhę” sik’ katcəhę” wąsa’ se’he’e”.
When you want to make baskets, go down to the river bottom and cut much cane. Bring back a quantity of split cane. Make many baskets. Many people will buy the baskets when they are made. Cut down a tree to get the bark for a splint to bind the rim [of the basket]. Use white-oak splints to make a handle. By using walnut bark a black dye, and puccoon root a red dye is made [to color] the cane splints.
